Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Research

Professor Garrison's research interests are in rhetorical theory, feminist and disability rhetorics, 19th century American literature and writing center theory and practice. Her recent publications include: "Toward Authentic Dialogue: The Origins of the Fishbowl Method and its Implications for Writing Center Work," "Hard-boiled Rhetoric: The 'Fearless Speech' of Philip Marlow," "The Practical Wisdom of the 'Educated Man's Daughter': Feminist Rhetorical Theory and Woolf's ThreeGuineas" and "Understanding Learning Disability as Cultural Construct."

Professor Lodge's research interests are comparative and world literature, Russian language and literature, Czech language and literature, central and eastern Europe, Romanticism, Symbolism, Decadence, Modernism and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and culture. Her recent publications include: "Decadence and Barbarism in the Czech Lands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," "Mirrors in Russian Symbolism" and "Russian Decadence in the 1910s: Valery Briusov and the Collapse of Empire."

Professor Arnoult's areas of interest are the English Reformation, Tudor-Stuart England, Early Modern Europe and the British Empire. Her recent publications include: "Prayer Book, Polemic and Performance," "Home Schooling: The English Gentlewoman" and "Some Improvement to the Spiritual and Eternal State: Women's Prayers in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England."

Professor Collins' research interests are United States History--American West, Texas and the Southwest; Native American Studies; Twentieth Century United States; U.S. Diplomatic history, American Intellectual history and public history. His recent publications include: "Walter Prescott Webb," "The Education of Theodore Roosevelt" and "The Execution of Private Garcia."

Professor Jun’s research interests include: the history and philosophy of anarchism, left-socialism, and left-libertarianism; issues in political normativity; moral and philosophical issues in economics, especially as concerns the concepts of labor, equality, and exploitation; the philosophy of labor and the history of philosophy within radical labor and workers' rights movements; metaphilosophy, and the sociology of philosophies. His recent publications include: "Classic Anarchist Theory and Race" (forthcoming in Summer 2013), "Rethinking the Anarchist Canon: History, Philosophy, and Interpretation" (forthcoming in Spring 2013), "Editors Introduction" to Special Issue on the 2nd North American Anarchist Studies Network and "Towards an Anarchist Film Theory."

Professor Vandehey's research interests are career counseling and testing, child and adolescent clinical psychology and testing, family therapy and GLBT counseling. His recent publications include: "The Predictive Power of an Introductory Class in Determining Academic Success," "The Effects of External Pressures and Competitiveness on Characteristics of Eating Disorders and Body Dissatisfaction" and "College Cheating: A Twenty-Year Follow-Up and the Addition of an Honor Code.